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High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out - A Conversation with Amanda Ripley

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Preventing and Reducing Conflict and Instability in the United States: Shaping What Comes Next Series

Join the Alliance for Peacebuilding on June 9th, 2021 at 1:00pm EDT for an exciting conversation with Amanda Ripley, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, as she discusses her newly published book, High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out. Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free.

People in dramatically different situations can be drawn into high conflict by similar forces. But ultimately, we can transform high conflict into something good, something that makes us better people. Individuals—even entire communities—can short-circuit the feedback loops of outrage and blame, if they want to. This is a mind-opening new way to think about conflict that will transform how we do peacebuilding work at home and abroad.